Packaging machine.



P. REMINGTON.

PACKAGING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 1, 1913.

Patented Mar. 2, 1915.

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PACKAGING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APR.1, 191s.

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PACKAGING MACHINE.

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JOSEPH PERGY REMINGTON. or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

PACKAGING-MAGHINE.

- y T all whom t may concern i e it known that I, JOSEPH PERGY REM- INGTON, a citizen of the United States, re-

siding in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Packaging-Machines, of which the following is a specification.v f

One object of my invention is to provide a machine which shall be capable of avuto-v matically filling a succession of cases or` boxes with tablets or other bodies of prede` termined size and'thereafter placing lids upon the filled boxes; the invention also contemplating mechanism whereby a lining of paper is introduced into each box, preferably by theacty of placing'in the box the tablets with which it is to be filled, as Well as novel means Afor cutting ofi' successive lengths ofthe paper for such linings from a web of the same and folding the paper ends over the tabletsin each box so that said ends lie ina flat position thereon prior to the application of the lid.

Another object of the invention is to provide a machineof the above noted type with novel means fo-r continuously assembling. Vpredetermined rnumbers of ,tablets in the form of successive charges `for filling boxes.

carried by a suitable magazine, said vinvention contemplating means for separating` the vpowder landibroken tablets from thev perfect tablets `prior to their assembly.`

The invention further includes novel` means for receiving a mass of tablets and thereafter assembling and condensing them so that they are delivered in the form of a f series ef rows'each consisting of apredetermined number of tablets lying parallel with each other.

I also desire to provide a machine of the above noted type with ak novel form of magazine for receiving and holding boxes to be filled, and which shall include novel means for 'clamping said'boxes in place at certain times and releasing them at other times, as .vell as novel means'for introducing said boxes to and ejecting them from said magazine.

It is further desired to provide a packaging machine with novel means for feeding box covers and thereafter successively apl plying them to filled boxes, the invention also including means for cutting the successive lengths of paper for lining theboxes,

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Mar, 2, 1915. Application led yApril 1, 1913. Serial No. 258,237..

.as WellV as an improved device for transferiing successive rows oftablets from the assembling and condensing mechanism. to the boxes in the magazine.

These objects and other advantageous ends I secure as hereinafter set forth, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure l is a perspective view illustrating the general construction of my packaging machine; Fig. 2 is a side elevation on ya larger .scale of the main portion of the machine shown in Fig. l; Figs. 3 and 4 are elevations ofthe ends of the machine; Fig. 5 is a plan of the tablet sorting device forming part of my machine; Fig. 6k is a longitudinal section on the line -a Fig. 5; Figs. 7 and 8 are pespective views of the tablet condensing and assembling devices respectively; Fig. 9 is a transverse section on the line'-b Fig. 5; Fig. l0 is a vertical section of the main portion of the machine,

illustrating the construction and operation of the mechanism constituting the same; Fig. 10a is a side elevation of the main part of Athe machine; Fig. 1l is a perspective View, on an enlarged scale, illustrating the paper` cutting and folding mechanism with i certain of the partsv associated therewith; Fig. 12 is a fragmentary perspective view of the paper clampingv device; Fig. 13 is a full size fragmentary lperspective view ofthe box. 'filling mechanism; Fig. 13 is a per-v specti've view `showing the detail constructioirof the tablet conveyer; Fig. lll is a peri I s'pective view, partly in section, showing yJtheifcapping lmechanism and certain associ- `rr `'ated parts; Figs. l'an'd 15a are respectively 'a perspectivey and a vertical section of a -vpart of the vlid-supporting mechanism; Figs. i 16, 17 andvl'S are detail perspectives, the last two partly iii section, showing the detailconstruction of'portions of the lid applying and'ejecting mechanism; Fig. 19 is a perspective vieWof one of the box clamping levers; Fig. 20is a fragmentary perspective, showing'the box feeding mechanism; Figs. 2l and 22 are perspective views of a filled and covered box and of a box without its lid respectively; Fig. 23 is a vertical section showing the connection between the hollow arm and the assembling pontainer; Fig. 24, is a fragmentary vertical section showing the connection between the tablet supply chute and the hollow arm, and Fig. 25 is a transverse section of the lower end of the tablet condensing device.` j

In Figs.V 21 and 22 of the above drawings I have illustrated a box 1 which it is desired in this instance to automatically ll with relatively thin tablets of square outline, the box in this case being elongated in form and of asubstantially square section. The

"box cover or lid is indicated r at 2 and it is desired that a definite number of tablets, (in

the present case, eighteen), of the form above indicated, shall be placed in the box with a lining y (F igs, 13 and 14), of paper extending down one side of the box, under the tablets and up the other side.

The machine ffor assembling the tablets, placing them with the paper in the box, and then placing the cover on the box is indicated generally in Fig. 1, in which 4 and 5 are platforms for two operators, there being a table 6 above the platform 5, for

lthe reception of the tablets as they are delivered from a tablet making machine or other source of supply. This platform is provided with a perforated plate 7 setl Hush with its top surface and has a drawer 84 extending'under said plate to catch dust or small broken pieces passing into it from the mass of tablets on thetable, it being understood that the latter are moved by the operator over said plate prior to their delivery to a chute 9. There is also provided an opening 10 leading directly into the drawer 8 into which the operator may deliver any larger sized broken pieces. Adja* cent the second platform 5 is a second table 11 for the reception of boxes and lids, there being a. chute 12 for the reception of the former and a second chute 13 into which the latter are fed, both extending through and projecting. upwardly from said table.

Referring first-to the means fory assembling predeterminednumbers of tablets in successive rows ready for" `delivery to boxes,-I have illustrated the various parts in Figs; 5 to 9 inclusive, and 23,124 and 25. In Figs. 2 and 4 there are shown portions of the main machine frame, which for the most part consists of two substantially parallel side members 14 connected or braced together in any suitable manner and providing bearings for a main shaft 15 to which is fixed a driving pulley 16 or other suitable source of power. Also fixed to said shaft is a crank 17, which through a connecting rod 18 is intended to oscillate an "elongated container 19 in the manner hereafter described. The chute, whose upper end is indicated at 9 in Fig. 1,-isvmovably connected, as shown in Fig. 24, to a hollow arm 20 whose lower end is provided with a lateral cylindrical extension 21 on which is journaled one end of the elongated container 19. This latter is hinged or pivoted to a portion of the frame 14 by a spindle or pin 22; the arrangement being such that tabletsl delivered tothe hollow arm 20 find their way through the lateral extension 21 vinto said container 19. The ends of this container are preferably .rounded as shown in Fig. 6, and its bottom, although cut away at the middle, has portions 23 and 24 at its opposite ends on which tablets may temporarily rest.

Below the bottom and permanently attached in any suitable manner to the body of the container 19, is an assembling trough 25 consisting of a shallow box within which are 4mounted two series of thin vertically set parallel plates or partitions 26 and 27 extending from' one end of said trough to the other. The portions of the plates under the part 24 of the bottom of. the container 19 are all of the same height, but the remaining parts have their upper edges extended through the opening above the bot-` tom of said container as indicated at 28 in Fig. 8; the extensions of alternate ones of said plates 27 being gradually inclined upwardly from `the edge of the bottom part 24 and thereafter descending abruptly to t? e closed end 29 of the trough 25, while the remainder. are inclined upwardly with comparative abruptness from the part 24 and thereafter descend gradually toward the end 29 of said trough. j j

A condensing and delivery trough 30 extends downwardly from the hinge or pivot 22 as shown in Figs. 2 and 6, and this con sists of an inclined plate having sides 31, which while parallel at the upper end of said plate, converge as they approach the lower end thereof, until their distance apart is equal to the length of each of the rows of tablets which the boxes 1 are designed to receive. Thereafter for a short distance the lower portions ofthe side members., 31 are parallel (Fig. 5), and as shown in Fig.

25, may be moved toward or from each' `other to accommodate different thicknesses of tablets by means of adjusting screws 31a.

vThe lowest parts of the side members 31 are connected by a tablet retaining plate 32a which is rigidly attached to one ,of said members and movablyengaged with the other, so as to permit of the adjustment by the screws 31a.

Mounted within and fixed to the bottom of the trough 30 is a series of parallel, relatively thin vertical plates 32 of which that l lying in the middle longitudinal plane of the trough is the longest, (Fig. 7). The plates o n either side of this middle plate successively decrease in length until the shortest terminates in the neighborhood of the point of junction of the upper part with the adjacent inclined side 31. It will be noted that thedesign of the side members of the troughl 30 and the lengths and proportions of the y anche@ division plates 32 will depend upon the dimensions of the tablets to be assembled and condensed into rows, although the arrangement must be such as to prevent one or more of the tablets of any row getting between any two of the tablets of a lower row and thus wedgizig or jamming so as to prevent their downward flow or movement under the action of gravity.

It is noted that there is such a number of the plates or partitions 32 as to provide the same number of lines of movement for tablets in an edgewise position, as there are tablets to be placed in each box, there being in the present instance eighteen such feeding channels. By means hereafter described, the lowermost lines or rows of assembled tablets are successively removed and the inclination of the delivery trough 30 is such that after eac-h such removal, the mass of' `spectively receive the ends of the plates 32 when the container 19 is oscillated on said hinge pin.

By means of this tablet assembling` and condensing mechanism successive rows or lines of tablets are delivered to the lower end of the trough 30, where the lowermostr4 j row is brought to rest on the surface of a cylindrically curved plate which passes under the lower end of saidt-rough and at one edge terminates immediately adjacent a rotating magazine 34. Concentric with the curved surface of the plate 33 I provide a cross shaft 38 properly supported in bearings in the side members 14 of the main frame and carrying two parallel arms 35 connected at their outer ends by a cross bar 36 whose innermost edge is parallel with and immediately adjacent the outer curved surface of the plate 33. Mounted on and extending rearwardly from this cross bar 36 is a second curved plate 37 whose outer surface is preferably spaced away from the outer surface of the first plate 33, with which it is parallel, by a distance substantially equal to the width or breadth of one row of tablets, so that when the shaft 38 is actuated to move thearms 35 with the cross bar 36 and plate 37 toward the magazine 34, said plate and bar carry with them the lowermost row of tablets indicated at and slidably support the next lower row, which is held from being drawn out, when the first row is removed, by the bridge piece 32a.

For oscillating the shaft 38 I provide it with a crank armv 39, which through a rod 40 is connected toV a crank arm 41 fixed to a shaft 42 journaled in the top parts of the side members of the frame 14 and also carrying a sprocket wheel 42 connected through a chain 43 with a second sprocket wheel 44 on the main driving shaft 15, Fig. 2.

The magazine 34 (Fig. 10) will be seen to consist of a wheel-like structure rotatably carried on a shaft 45 extending between. the side members 14 of the frame and having in its peripheral surface a series of transversely elongated recesses of substantially square section designed for the reception of the boxes to be filled.v Adjacent one long side of each of these recesses a plate 46 is mounted in a suitable depression of and substantially flush with the cylindrical surface of the' magazine structure, and is spaced away from one side of vsuch depression to form a transversely extending slot 47 for a purpose hereafter noted.

In order to clamp the boxes 1 within the recesses of the magazine, I provide each of the latter with va clampingI device in the form of a lever 48, (Fig. 19), having a cross bar 49 fixed to the end of one of its arms, and so pivoted to the magazine structure by a pin 50 that said cross bar' extends immediately adjacent and parallel with one side of the box-receiving' recess. The end of the second arm of each lever ,is preferably beveled or sharpened as shown, so as to engage the surface of a rotary cam 51, loosely mounted on the shaft 45 within the magazine structure 34, the arrangement being such that the various levers 48, when mounted on drical exterior surface of said cam. The latter has fixed to it an arm 116, (Fig. lO), which j is pivoted to a link` 117 whose upper end is slotted to receive a shaft 93 on which it isslidably guided. This link carries a roller 117a operative in the groove of a cam 932* fixed to said shaft 93, so that as the latter rotates said cam is periodically oscillated on vthe shaft 45.

The arrangement and proportioning of the parts is such that as long as the ends of the levers 48 ride upon the cylindrical portion of the cam 51, the cross bars 49 carried on their short arms occupy positions such as to clamp the boxes 1 within the recesses of the magazine, and in order to periodically permit the levers to release the boxes preferably mounted on its pivot 50 and actt j* 'knife 66 an elevated position. The

' shaftrotates,

ing between the adjacent portionof the magazine structure and its short arm.

For alternately rotating the.l magazine structure and locking it to prevent movement, I provide any suitable form of oper-l ating mechanismv such as a `Geneva gear,

illustrated in the present instance as consist? g ing of a disk `54 mounted on the transverse shaft 42 and provided with a laterally projecting pin 56 ydesignedto enter radial slots 57 in a plate attached to or forming part of the maga'zlne structure, which between said slots is provided lwith circularly 'curved re`v cesses 55 for the reception yof the circularly (Fig. 11), is provided with a crank 5,8 on whose pin is loosely mounted a folder 60 in the form of an arm the magazine structure 34 and is'V sharpened at its outer edge so -as ing under a folding apron formed by 61 extending between the-side members of the frame immediately above the surfaceof the magazine structure'.y

Obviously when the shaft to be capable ofjpa'ssy l ajplatev f 42 is turned, l

clamp it tightly to said surface. Thereafter as the knifeblade passes between the bars 69 into one of the slotsy 47,."itstrikes and cuts the tightly kstretched paper.

.Mounted on the cross barf63 which sup- Y the rows offtabletsink the boxesasthe `magacurved edge of said disk 54. The shaft 42,vv

therefrom' any dust which may bethereon.

whose outer extremity is transversely elongated tothe width. of

the folder 60 is givena reciprocating move-lV ment ytoward and from the apron 61, -its,y

sharpened or inclined edge'being held downA and guided byy provided in the adjacent y-portionsfof the main frame. f

At a suitable pointl between the condens-f and the transverse shaft 4 25 end a knife blade 66 whose cutting edge is immediately `adjacent the external surface 34. A stripof` attached at one endto the of the magazinestructure spring metal means of a projecting pin at' each end and slidab'le within guide-ways 62,

yFrom-Figs. 13 and 13a, Iit will be seen that each: of the arms 35 on the shaft 38 has vfixed lto it,y adjacent.v said shaft,- a radially extending spring strip 72, on whose'outer `end 1s fixed a'beveled block 73 projecting p orts the 'knife frame fis-fa dust'brushf''l def ksigned to restupon vthewebvof, paper and over the adjacent end of the curved plate 37.

placed 'that when saidplate occupies the 1 position shown in 10, withlitsl front yedge to,v the .rear of theplane of the bottom kof thev delivery trough 30, said blocks-err' Thebeveled'portions of thesel blocks are so i gage vthe sides 31 of said troughy an'dithere-- by, 'separatetlie 'strips f These latter "carry forwardly yprojecting spring fingers 7 4 ,whi'ch arey thus ,temporarilyr moved apart so that arow kof tablets is'freel to slide beblocks 73 are moved out of engagement with bars`64 connected byy arms 4 54, has .its opposite kend bearing upon the shaft' 42 and serve sto'normally hold the crank58, however, is so placed kon the shaft 42 and is 'ofvsuch' dimensions, that as said -it periodically comes into engagement with one'of the cross. bars 65 andv forces the lrnife frame downwardly to such a roll y around a'guiderod or 'roll 78 carried bythe an extent as to cause the blade 66 to enter other more or less yielding cover 70 and the arrangement of parts is such that when the y ing them in the magazine spindle 7 5 vsupportedV at'- frame of the machine. 2

'the sides of the trough, thereby permitting tweenth'emvon to thefixed lcurved plate 33. f f

-As the shaft 3,8 is :turned to p move. the plate f 37 toward the 'magazine 434, the beveled the springstrips l721:0' press thefin'gers i74- intojzengagement vrwithxthe. irowfof tablets, t

and'holding them fin'ja Vlinefas ythey are moved over the fixed plate 33.

The paper for liningthe boxes vl ris sup# pliedinth'e shape'ofa roll Y carried ona the rear end of thev From this. roll the paper web y passes overa guide roll'7 6 toV 7 7 lmounted onv a yshaft 38, thence arms 35, and betweenV themagazine struc- `ture34 land the adjacent edge of the plate 33, beyondwhich itextends alternately into v the boxes andfove'r the intermediate portions of said magazines. i

For feeding the empty boxes to and plac- 34, I provide the mechanism shown in Figs. 10and 20, from which it will be vseen that thesubstantially.

. vertical lower end of the chute 12 terminates in a substantially horizontal plate 80, said chute being open on its forward side although thek edges 81 of its opening are flanged toward each other for the purpose of retaining the 80 is provided with side members 82 longitudinally slotted `at 83, for the reception of empty ooxes 1. The plate i pins 84 which project through said slots from a pusher 85, this latter also having two other supporting pins or rollers 86 likewise operative in the slots 83. The back of the chute 12 is cut away to permit of the passage of said pusher toward and from the magazine, and for actuating this pusher there are links 87 (Fig. 10a) connecting the pins 84 with the arms 88 of a pair of levers journaled on atransverse rod or spindle 89. One of these levers has a second arm 90 provided with a roller operative in the groove 91 of a cam 92 fixedA to a transverse shaft 93 driven from the shaft 42 by gears 94, 95 and 96. It will be noted that the groove in this cam, for about one half of its extent,

fis substantially concentric with the shaft 93,

so that while the roller on the end of the lever arm 90 is engaged by this part of said groove, the pusher is not actuated but remains in the position shown in Fig. 10. The remainder of the cam groove, however, consists of two substantially similar portions 91'7l having a relatively steep eccentricity, preferably ,united by a short length 91b substantially concentric with and immediately adjacent the shaft 93. The lever arms 88 each carries at a proper distance from its supporting spindle 89, a projecting piece 9'( having pivoted to it aspring actuated pawl 98 (Figs. 14 and 17), and these pieces are so mounted as to project parallel with and immediately adjacent the opposite sides of the magazine 34, while the pawls 98 are so designed that when the lever arms 88 are swung toward the shaft.,l15, they firstengage the ends of "a box carried by the magazine structure and are thereby turned on their pivots against the action of the springs 99 until they finally spring outwardly and project toward each other under the bottom of the box. Thereafter, the rearward movement of the lever arms 88 brings the flat faces of said pawls into engagement with the opposite `ends of the box and forces j the latter out of the recess in the magazine. The box lids, as before noted, are delivered through a chute 18 which like the chute 12,

is' open on one face land provided with flan es 100 for retaining the lids or covers whi e permitting of their inspection.' The lower end of saidchute is curved from a substantially vertical line untilit is almost tangent with the cylindrically curved surface of the magazine, (Fig. 14), and it approaches the latter between the box delivering chute and the folder G0. It terminates immediately in front of a pair of side mem- 'bers 101 carried bv the main frame and connected by a cross bar 102, lat the middle of whose front face is fixed a strip 103 ofspring metal, designed to provide a buffer for the lids as they are delivered from the chute. Screws or bolts 104 are mounted in the cross bar 102 adjacent its ends so as to provide means whereby the end portions of the strip 103 may be forced to a greater or less extent toward the end of the chute in order that the covers or lids discharged from the latter may be properly positioned. The side members 101 extend radially away from the magazine structure 3a to which they are adjacent and each of them is provided with a slot 105, also radial of the magazine, for the reception of guide pins 106 and 107 projecting from the coverpusher 108 (Fig. 6). This latter is actuated from the two levers 88 which are respectively engaged by the guide pins 106 so that-said pusher may be moved thereby toward and from the magazine, immediately adjacent the end of the chute 13. In addition to the above, each of the side members 101 has its inner face recessed for the reception of a fra-me 109, (Figs. 15 and 15a), designed to temporarily support each of the box lids just before it is engaged by the pusher 108. Each of these supporting frames consists of a pair of arms pivoted to one of the side members 101 by a pin 110 and having their lower ends connected "by a cross piece 111 whose upper face is beveled or inclined so that both frames will swingen their pivots or b'e forced apart when pressure is exerted on a lid 2 by the pusher 108. Said supporting frames 109 are each normally acted on by a spring 112, confined between an extension 113 of one of its arms and the adjacent portion of the member 101, to force the beveled lower portions toward each other into positions to support a lid.

Between the lower end of the chute 12 and the magazine 34, but above the line of movement of the pusher 85, is-placed a transversely extending plate 120, (Fig. 10), one of whose endsis lower than the other and which is designed to discharge into a spout 114. Its lower end is so directed as to deliver filled and capped boxes upon a conthe roll Y, is passed around the guide roll.

ers 76, 77 and 78, being thereafter carrie between the magazine 34 and the adjacent endof the curved plate 33 and then drawn upwardly over the external surface of the said magazine. Through the chain 43 power is transmitted from the pulley 16 to the shaft 42,' thus rotating the disk 54, which when the pin or roller 56 is operating in one of the 4radial recesses 57, intermittently turns the magazine 34 through a prei determined arc equal to the angular distance cularly curved depressions 55 of the toothed plate heretofore described. A supply of boxes 1 is delivered into the chute 12 with their open sides adjacent the rear portion thereof, while covers 2 are fed into the chute 13 with their open faces directed toward the open side of said chute. Tablets of the proper dimensions are then delivered in quantity tothe table 6 and after passage over the perforated plate 7 for the purpose of removing the dust and small broken pieces, are fed to the upper end of the fixed chute 7, from which they pass into the hollow arm or conduit 20 and through the outlet at the lower end thereof, into the sorting or assembling container 19. As heretofore described, this latter is continuously oscillated on its hinge 22 through the connecting rod 1S, so that the mass of irregularly disposed tablets is alternately slid from one end of said container to the other. Obviously, however, when the tablets strike the upwardly projecting edges 28 of the strips or partitions 27, certain f them are necessarily tilted from a horizontal to an inclined position, and lpartly under the action of gravity as well as a result of the movement of the container, they fall between these strips, sooner or later assuming edgewise or vertical positions between the strips26 and 27. "As the container 19 is moved from the position shown in Fig. 6 to that shown in Fig. 2, all of those tablets which has assumed edgewise positions and are resting on the bottom of the supplementarv or assembling trough 25, slide toward the hinge 22 under ythe false bottom 24, .and

more or less of vthem pass into the guide ways formed by the strips or partitions 32 of the delivery trough 30. It may be noted that the end of the assembling trough 25, farthest away from the hinge 22, is vpreferably perforated or slotted at one end as indicated at 29a to permit of the escape of dust and small particles o f broken tablets The tablets delivered to'the trough 30 (Fig. 7), slide down the guide ways therein until the lower and middle portions of said trough, are filled with horizontally extending rows of tablets, though if desired, in starting the machine, this trough may be manually filled with the' tablets in the positions indicated in dotted lines, and thereafter the continued oscillation of the container 19 will at all times maintain the guide ways filled. In the operation of the machine, the tablets are removedl from the lower end of this delivery or condensing trough 30 in successive rows, and each time a row is removed, all of the remaining tablets move downwardly a distance equal to the length of`the side of one tablet, it being noted that the various strips or partitions 32 so direct the tablets that as they move down, they are gradually allowed to approach each-other until, after passing the longest and central partition, they lie in compact rows without intervening spaces. With my peculiar construction and arrangement of the partitions, the tablets at the outer ends of each row are irst brought into engagement with each other .and as thev move down the partitions are gradually omitted, beginning with the outermost pairs, until finally the two middle tablets of the row are allowed to engage each other, thus completing the condensing of said row.

The lowermost row of tablets in the trough 30 rests directly upon the upper surface of the fixed curved plate 33 v(Fig. 13), and at the beginning of a cycleI of operations the movable plate 37 lies to the rear of this row (Fig. 10). Thereafter when this plate is moved toward the magazine by the mechanism heretofore described, this bottom row of tablet-s is moved from under the next upper row which is held from displacement by the bridge piece 32a and is thereafter immediately clamped in a horizontal column by the spring lingers 74, s0 that its constituent pieces maintain a perfectly straight alinement. By the movement of the plate 37, said row is finally'brought into engagement with the paper web which is stretched over the adjacent face of the magazine, and the roller 78 is so p-laced on the arms 72 that as said row engages the web and forces it into a box 1 which has previously been placed in a recess of the magazine, there'will be provided exactly the desired amount of slack necessary to permit said paper to,v extend down one side of the box, across the vbottom thereof, and up the other side. i

At the time a box receiving recess of the magazine is immediately adjacent the line of movement of the pusher 85, the beveled end of the lever 48, whose ,cross piece 49 projects within this particular recess, lies within the depression or recess of the cam 51, which is so operated and adjusted as to produce this result, so that said cross piece occupies its extreme lopen position in order `that a box may be freely inserted. The cam 92 is so designed and timed that while the magazine is locked from movement by the Geneva gear heretofore described, the lever' arms 88 move said pusher toward the magazine, causing it to transfer a boX from the bottom of the chute 12 into an empty box recess of the magazine.

Shortly thereafter the Geneva gear causes the magazine to make a partial rotation equal in angular amount to the distance between two adjacent box recesses and just previous to this the cam 51 is moved through the arm 11G, link 117 and cam 98a so as to cause the beveled end of the lever 48 belonging to the recess in which the box has just been placed, to move out of the recess 53 with the result that its cross bar 49 engages the adjacent side of said box and clamps it 'Tn the recess. Thereafter the magazine is intermittently moved until the box in the recess has been brought into the position with respect to the row of assembled tablets and the paper lining previously described, although it is noted that immediately before the .row of tablets is inserted, the cam 51 so moves as tov allow Vthe end of the clamping lever 48 to drop into the same cam recess 52 thus releasing the side of the box and permitting the free entrance of the tablets. Just prior to the next movement of the magazine, the cam 51 causes the beveled end of the lever to again ride upon its cylindrical surface, thus not only clamping the box in the recess but also firmly holding the tablets in the box so that when a subsequent row of tablets is introduced in'to the next empty box, the paper web and hence the tablets therein are held from being drawn out of this first filled box.

As the plate 37 moves toward the magazine with a row of tablets, its curved outer surface prevents the succeeding row from dropping, and asit is moved toward the,

position shown in Fig. 10 after having placed a row of tablets in a box, the beveled blocks T3 strike the sides 31 of the delivery trough, moving the spring strips 72 with the lingers 7-1 away from each other, so that when the plate reaches its extreme rear position, the row of tablets heretofore held up by it is permitted to freely drop on to the plate 33; the various series of tablets in the said trough immediately moving downwardly as previously described.

In. the case shown five boxes are thus successively lined with paper and filled with tablets, although'the linings of these boxes are still continuous with each other. After the first filled box, however, has passed under the knife blade 66 and the paper clamping strips 77, the next downward movement of the knife frame (i4-*65 causes said strips to firmly press the web` nearest said boX against the adjacent surface of the magazine thus holding it taut immediately over the transverse slot 87. The knife blade 66 then descends and moves into said slot 47, cutting or breaking the paper-in a straight line, so that the two ends thus formed project upwardly at an angle to the surface of the magazine. Thereafter the two next movements of said magazine bring the first filled box under the reciprocating folder 60, which, aftermoving over the projecting ends of the lining, moves toward the apron 61 and turns over the end nearest it so that this lies horizontally over the top surface of the tablets in the box. It will be understood that at this time the second end of the paper lining is projecting toward the apron 61 and as the magazine is moved to bring this first filled box under said apron, the latter turns over this second end, causing it to lie down over the first folded end as the folder is withdrawn by the crank 58.

At the time any particular box is having its paper lining forced into it by a row of tablets propelled by the movable plate 37, there are at least three filled boxes through which the uncut paper web extends and all of these are so clamped by the levers at8ihat veven the relatively great stress put on said web by the act of forcing it with a row of tablets into the box, is insufficient to dislodge the lining and tablets from the preceding boxes, although the necessary length is rawn from the slack provided by the forward movement of the arms 35. It is noted that the length of web necessary `to provide this slack is drawn from the paper roll Y by the movement of these arms 35 awa-y from the magazine.

After the ends of the paper lininghave been folded over the row of tablets in a box, the lat-ter is brought to rest in a position immediately under the pusher or capping plunger 108, which at this time is in the position shown in F ig. 10, with a, box lid resting aga-inst the strip 108 and supported by the inclined surface of the cross bars 111. The same action of the lever arms 88 which moves the pusher or plunger 85 toward the magazine, likewise forces the capping plunger 108 toward the filled box, so that it is brought into engagement with the lid or cover 2 and by reason of its pressure thereon, forces the arms 109 to turn on their pivots againstthe action of the springs 112 and carries the cover inwardly toward the magazine onto the filled box, which is still clamped in place by the lever g18 belonging to the recess in which it is carried. By the time this filled and covered box has been brought to its next succeeding position by the intermittent movement of the magazine, the inclined end of its clamping lever 48 drops int-o the recess of the cam 51 so that it no longer clamps the box in the magazine, and the next movement of the lever arms for the purpose of j'ilacing another cover ou. a filled bom results in the'pawls 98 being moved past the ends of the first filled box, as previously noted. The subsequent outward movement of the lever arms restoring the plungers or pushers 85 and 108 to the po sitions shown in Fig. 10. causes said pawls to eject the unclamped filled and capped box from the `recess in the magazine, whereupon it falls upon the inclined plate 113, from which it slides into the discharge spout 1111 and on to the conveying belt 115.

.From the above description it Will ber noted that after each of the movements of the magazine a box is placed in a recess of said magazine, a previously assembled rovv' of tablets with the paper lining is forced into a previously inserted box, the paper Web mid-Way between Itwo other filled boxes is clamped and severed, one of the severed ends of the paper lining of another box is folded over the tablets therein, still another filled box is provided with a lid or cover, and another box is ejected. While the magazine is making -one of its movements, a length of paper web isbeing drawn from the supply roll, an assembled row of tablets is gripped and moved by the cams 35 toward the magazine, the brush 71 removes from the periphery 0f the magazine and the row of tablets in a box, any dust which may have adhered thereto, the second one of the severed ends of a lining is folded over the first end by the apron 61, and certain of the levers 48 are moved to such positions as to unclamp the boxes With which they coperate, While others are moved to their clamping positions. At the same. time, of course,

the various portions of the mechanism arev movinginto the positions which they are required to occupy in order to perform the operations described as occurring When the magazine is at rest.

It will be noted from the above description that my machine materially reduces the labor and time necessary for lining, filling and covering boxes of the class noted and insures the' delivery to each of said boxes of a predetermined number of tablets in the desired positions. It will moreover be noted that the machine as a Whole is comparatively simple as Well as substantial so; that it is positive as Well as reliable in action. The various parts are conveniently accessible. so that in the event of any of the vbox lids or other parts becoming jammed, the trouble may be quickly found and easily corrected long before they are required for use in the machine.

It is to be understood that While I refer to tablets as the articles assembled and pla-ced in boxes by my machine, bodies of other forms, may be operated on Without departing from or essentially modifying my invention, and in some cases single bodies having the overall dimensions of a row of tablets may be placed in the boxes since it isimmaterial Whether one or a number of pieces of material in. the form of a row be acted on to force the paper lining web into the boxes.

I claim 1. The combinationin a packaging machine of a carrier formed to receive a succession of boxes; means for delivering rows of tablets radially of the carrier to the boxes sup-A ported thereby; and means for capping the filled boxes.

2. The combination in a packaging machine of arotary magazine formed-to receive a Vsuccession lof boxes; means for si-- multaneously delivering a plurality of tablets in the form of a row to each of the successive boxes inthe magazine; and means for capping the filled boxes.

3. The combination in a packaging machine of a rotary magazine having radial recesses for the reception of a succession of boxes; means for delivering rows of tablets radially 'of the magazine to the boxes therein; means for cappingthe illed'boxes; and

means for automatically ejecting the filled boxes fromtheicarrier.

4. The comblnation 1n a packaging machine of a carrier; means for lfeeding boxes' radially into the carrier; means for delivering filllngmaterial radially of the carrier into the boxes; means for delivering caps radially of the ,carrier to the boxes; and means for automatically discharging the boxes from the carrier after they have been filled and capped.

5. The combination in a packaging machine of a carrier; means for feeding boxes thereto; means for filling and simultaneously lining the boxes; .means for capping the boxes; and means for automatically discharging .the boxes from the carrier.

6. The combination ina packaging machine of a carrier; means for feeding boxes thereto; means for filling the boxes supported by the carrier and simultaneously forcing into'them a length of paper web; means for cutting said length from a source of supply of the same; means for capping the boxes; and means vfor discharging the boxes from the carrier.

7. The combination in a packaging .ma-

chine of a carrier; means for feeding boxes thereto; means for assemblinga succession of substantially parallel rows of tablets; means for delivering the tablets of each row simultaneously into ay box; means for capping the boxes; and means for discharging' chine of a carrier having a series of recesses;

means for feeding boxes to said recesses; means for filling the boxes; means for clamping the boxes and their contents in the recesses; means for cappingtheboxes; means' for releasing the boxes from their clamped condition; and means for ejecting the boxes from. the recesses.

.10. The-combination of a carrier having'a series of box receiving recesses; a clamping device for 4each recess; means for feeding material to the boxes in the recesses; means for causing the box clamping means to occupy a box releasing position at predetermined times; and means for ejecting .the boxes at such times.

11. The combination in a packaging machine of a carrier having a series of box receiving recesses; a clamping device for each of said recesses; means for feeding materialv to the boxes in the recesses; means for ejectl fing filled boxes from the recesses; and means 4chine of a carrier havin for releasing the box clamping means While the box is being filled and when it is being ejected.

12. The combination in a packaging machine of a carrier having box receiving recesses; means for supplying a web of lining material adjacent the carrier; mechanism for supplying material to fill the boxes in -each of the recesses and simultaneously forcing into each box a lining formed by part of said web; means for periodically cutting the web between the recesses; means for capping the filled boxes; and means for ejecting said boxes from the carrier.

13. The combination of a carrier having a series of box receiving recesses; means for supplying a web of paper adjacent the carrier; a device for simultaneously filling each box and forcing a web of material into tne same; a cutter for severing theweb between each pair of adjacent boxes; means for fold ing the ends of the web projecting from each box; and means for successively capping the boxes.

14. The combination of a carrier having a series of box receiving recesses; means for supplying a web of paper adjacent the carrier; means for forcing said web into the box in each recess; means in addition to and independent of the boxes in said recesses for temporarily holding the web in a taut condition; and means for cutting said web while it is so held.V

15. The combination in a packaging machine of a carrier having a series of box rein said recesses with web material; a device j in addition to and independent of the boxes or material in the recesses and successively operative between each two recesses, for temporarily holding said web material in a taut condition; and a cutter for severing the web while it is so held.

16. The combination in a packaging maa series of box receiving recesses; means or lining boxes in said recesses with web material; a device for two spring pressed karms placed to with the carrier to clamp the body of web and means for capping the boxes after said lining has been cut.

17. The combination of a rotary carrier having a series of box holding recesses; means for feeding material to boxes in said recesses and simultaneously lining them with web material; a device in addition to and independent of the boxes or material in said recesses for clamping the web material to the carrier between each pair of recesses so that it is taut over the same; and a cutter for severing said material while it is so clamped. i

18. The combination in a packaging ma chine of a carrier having a series of box receiving recesses and a slot between eacn pair of recesses; means for automatically filling the boxes in said recesses and simultaneously lining them with web'material; a device in addition to and independent of the boxes or material in said recesses for clamping the web material on each side of a slot between two filled boxes; and a knife operative to cut the web material while said device holds it stretched over the slot.

.19. The combination in a packaging machine of a carrier 'having a series of box'receiving recesses 'and provided with a slot between each 'pair of adjacent recesses; a reciprocating knife; means for successively filling the boxes in said recesses and at the same time lining them with web material; coperate material thereto on opposite sides of a slot; and means for periodicallyl actuating the knife to sever the web material over said slot while it isheld by said spring pressed arms. v

20. The combination in a packaging machine of a carrier having a series of box' receiving recesses; means for successively feeding rowsv of tablets to boxes in said recesses and at the same time forcing into the boxes a lining of web material; two spring arms mounted to co-act with parts of the carrier between each pair of boxes to hold the web-material in a taut condition; and a knife for periodically cutting said web materialwhile it is held by said arms.

21. The combination in a packaging machine of a carrier having box receiving recesses; means for intermittently turning said carrier; means for supplying a web of mate- -for folding the ends of said web material ico i 1o. ing the filling operation.

- after they have been cut; and means for4 thereafter capping the boxes. y

22. 'I he combination of a movable carrier having a series of box holders; means for feeding boxes to said holders; means for feeding material into boxes in the holders; and mechanism for causing each box to be clamped in its holder after'its introduction -thereto and after it has been filled, the

clamping mechanism releasing the box dur- 23. yThe combination of a vcarrier having box holders; means for feeding boxes to said holders; means for supplying paper lining for the-boxes adjacent certain ofthe holders; means for simultaneouslyforcing a body of material .and said lining into each box; and mechanism for temporarilyT clamping the material in each box after it has lbeenplaced therein.

24. The combination in a packaging ma- "chine of a carrier having a series of box holders; means for feeding boxes to said holders; means for simultaneously lining jacent the carrier; means for feeding filling material'to each -box and at the same time forcing thereintoa body of the lining material; means for cutting said web between each tivo filled boxes; means for capping-the',v boxes; and mechanism for clamping boxes.

in the` holders during the operation of the web cutting means, and releasing them while they are being filled and after they have been capped.

26.. The vcombination of' a rotary. carrier -having box holding recesses; lmeans forl feeding empty boxes to said recesses; means for supplying a web of lining material adjacent the carrier; means fory simultaneously forcing filling material into the boxes l and liningthem with said web; means for severing the web of lining material between -each pair ,of boxes; means for folding the ends of the lining material; means for aplad-4 plying a cap to each box; means for successively ejecting the boxes; and mechanism for clamping the boxes in the recesses, said mechanism being formed to release said boxes While they are being filled and while they are being inserted and ejected.

27. The combination in a packa ing machine of a carrier having means or holding a pluralityv of boxes; a-device for feeding a succession of boxes to said carrier; means for filling the ,boxes with material; a device for capping the filled boxes; and

. an operating member for causing the box feeding device to deliver a box to the carrier A at the same time that the capping device places a cap on a filled box.

28. The combination in a packaging machine of a carrier having means for holding a plurality of boxes; a device for feeding a succession ofboxes to said carrier; means fory filling the boxes with material; a device for capping the filled boxes; and a member common to both of said devices for causing one of them to deliver a box to the carrier at the same time the other is caused to place a cap on a filled box; with a box ejecting device also actuated vby said mem- I ber.

29. The combination vin a packaging machine of a carrier having means for holding a series of boxes; a device for feeding boxes to' the carrier; a device for ejecting boxes from the carrier.; a third device for applying caps to boxes; mechanism for filling boxes supported by the carrier; and a lever for actuating the box feeding and box capping devices; the box ejecting device being connected` to -said lever to remove a box from the carrier after the operation of the other two devices.

30. The combination ina packaging machine of a rotary carrierhaving means for receiving a'series of boxes; a' Geneva gear for intermittently rotating said carrier; with devices for delivering a box to the carr-ier, filling a second box on the carrier-,. Y

capping a filled box, and ejecting a fourth vbox,.between the movements of said carrier.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the lpresence' of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH PERCY REMINGTON.

Witnesses: v

WILLIAM E. BRADLEY, WM. A. BARR. 

